Total Registration: 455,971Turnout: 329,316Turnout as % of Reg.:
71.6%

1992

Bush (Rep.)............136,718

(40.66)

Clinton (Dem.).........124,888

(37.14)

Perot (Ind.)................73,295

(21.80)

Others (3)...................1,353

(0.40)

Total........336,254

Total Registration: 448,292Turnout: 336,254Turnout as % of Reg.:
75.0%

Results2000

+Bush/Cheney
(Rep.)

190,700

(60.30)

Buchanan/Foster (Ref.)

3,322

(1.05)

Gore/Lieberman (Dem.)

118,804

(37.56)

Browne/Olivier (Lib.)

1,662

(0.53)

Phillips/Frazier (Ind.)

1,781

(0.56)

Total........316,269

As a result of S.B. 34, passed
and signed into law in 1999, South Dakota's petition filing deadline for
independent candidates was moved up to June 20, 2000, third earliest in
the nation (before Nader even accepted the Greens' nomination on June 25).
Nader needed signatures of registered voters equal to at least one per
cent of the total votes cast for Governor in the previous gubernatorial
election (2,602 valid signatures) by June 20. The campaign took the
matter to court
but was unsuccessful.

OverviewThe presidential race had
turned out fairly close in South Dakota in 1992 and 1996, but not this
time around as Bush won with a plurality of 71,896 votes (22.74 percentage
points). Bush carried 61 of 66 counties, including the two largest;
Gore won five small counties scattered around the state.